There are many habits held by humanity that are totally counter-productive and yet which many of us voluntarily continue to be involved with anyway. We are all aware of hard drug and alcohol addiction, for example - but have you ever stopped to think of how many other habits exist within us that we just call 'character' or 'normal'?
Here are a couple of our common dysfunctional habits, of many - to demonstrate why these are counterproductive:
Blame
Blame is a habitual way of adding devaluation into the process of identifying who is the cause of a particular situation. The situation may be problematic and the individual may have either acted maliciously or not - but the blame component actually does nothing to help anything at all. Even when we learn that blame is dysfunctional itself, we can still be so heavily conditioned to rely on blame and self-blame, that we don't even notice we are heavily blaming ourselves internally in a highly unloving way that causes us distress.
Reward: a false sense of increased self worth through devaluing others or other parts of self.
Judgements
Judgements are a type of thought-form that attempts to fill in the gaps in understanding with what are little more than guesses. Since society teaches us that 'good judgement' can exist, instead of teaching us that 'all judgements are errors and allowing ourselves to accept we don't know something is much better than using judgements' - we often habitually base our thoughts on little more than guesses! This would be enough of a problem, but we often then allow these judgements to take on the appearance of facts when they are not. All judgements deny something - they deny something that is felt to be true, but which we are choosing to ignore.
Reward: A false sense of thinking you understand the reality of the situation, when you don't.
Unloving Light
What all these habits share is that they are powered by what I call 'unloving light'. The word 'light' refers to understanding, as in 'enlightenment' and the word 'unloving' simply means that love is not involved in the understandings. Unloving light feels unloving and it often has a way of acting to completely negate love and even to actively attack love wherever it is found!
Habit
Habits are a rigid pattern of behavior which we use only semi-consciously. We might feel a certain way and then rather than consciously accept the feeling and find out why the feeling exists - we simply jump to a preprogrammed reaction that is designed to reach a certain different feeling that we like more. The result of this is that we gradually grow dimmer and dimmer - since consciousness is depleted in this process.
Eventually, habits cause us to become robotic, lose health and then die.
Clearly such a self destructive mechanism is unloving and, yes, unloving light is involved with habit.
Ridicule limits reality
So this is the main topic of this post. Just like the other commonly used and unloving thought processes I have highlighted here - ridicule is one that parts of us like to use for their own reasons. We might not fully acknowledge WHY we like to use them because if we admitted why we like to use them we would also need to admit that parts of us feel unloved, injured, angry and unacceptable.
Whenever we ridicule things, others and ourselves - we are involved with a lack of respect and open minded consideration of all the details and causes involved. Ridicule seeks to belittle and bypass the facts in favor of a pre-determined outcome that is aligned to a particular agenda that is not based in the absolute light of truth. In other words, ridicule seeks to deny something and hide the full truth, all while appearing to be wise and all knowing.
There are many tragic outcomes from the use of ridicule and one of the least considered is the extent to which human understanding is being limited by the use of ridicule in daily life. If someone creates a new idea for solving a problem in life, it is quite common for some people to ridicule them and say 'that's impossible'. If everyone beLIEved that those who ridicule were correct, then there's a good chance we would have total stagnation - such is the extent of ridicule in the common psyche.
Imagine if you were visited by Extra Terrestrial beings and they showed you something amazing that could help humanity - but every human you met ridiculed the idea that ETs even existed. It is quite likely that you would keep your experiences to yourself to avoid being verbally and emotionally abused by the ridiculers and their unloving light. Now consider how many other kinds of unusual experiences and realisiations people might be having on a daily basis (over 1000s of years) but which never get passed on to others due to fear of ridicule. Now imagine how much harm has been done because of this and how many problems are not being solved because of this one issue - even though the actual solutions are known to exist.
The reach of human potential is being hugely stunted by our collective failure to agree to respect each other and to accept that we do not already know and understand everything that can be understood! We need new heart, new care and new respect if we are to survive at all, let alone thrive!
Wishing you well,
Ura Soul
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